The purpose of designing this Footwork Combination drills is to make a unique way of testing Karate athletes to achieve a high performance of ability of doing Agility workout and to test themselves with their own (karate) actions.

Content:目次

What
is Agility Test敏捷性テストとは何か

The
Important of Agility Test敏捷性テストの重要性

Types of Agility Test敏捷性テストの種類

Example of Agility Test (Agility T Test)敏捷性テストの例（敏捷性Ｔテスト）

“Tanzadeh” Agility Testタンザデの「運足」敏捷性テスト

Directions of Moving and Shifting移動と寄り足の方向

Types
of Moving and shifting (Footwork)移動と寄り足の種類（運足）

Tanzadeh
Agility test (Footwork Combination)タンザデの敏捷性テスト（運足の組合せ）

Scoring得点結果

What is Agility?

Agility helps performance in
activities that require you to change direction quickly whilst keeping balance,
strength, speed and body control. Agility is not just about the speed with which
an individual can change direction. But it’s also defined by the grace and
fluidity of movement.

Agility is the ability to move
and change direction and position of the body quickly and effectively while
under control. It requires quick reflexes, coordination, balance, speed, and
correct response to the changing situation.

Agility is the power to move quickly and easily. It
allows someone to decelerate, accelerate and change direction while keeping
perfect body control and without losing a lot of time in transition.

Agility helps ensure an
athlete’s collective coordinative abilities and gives a competitive advantage
for athletes with height, size, speed or strength challenges. Karate requires
great level of agility. Skills can be enhanced with agility training drills as
well as improving the specific individual fitness components of balance, speed,
power and coordination.

The
Importance of Agility Training: It has been said that outside of
sport-specific skills, agility is the primary determining factor for success in
sport. It is important to train agility in the same manner that any other skill
would be trained. Using the proper progression is a necessity.

Types of
existing Agility test in General which is used in different sport activities

There are lots of different way of
Agility drills and test out there in the sport like: 505 Agility Test, Illinois
Agility Test, Agility T Test, Hexagon Agility Test, Quadrant Jump Test,30 feet Agility Shuttle Run and 10 Meter Agility Shuttle.

Below I will explain the Agility T Test which is originally created for tennis players (T stands for Tennis).